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{{short description|Type of first-level administrative division of Ukraine}}

{{Infobox subdivision type
| name                  = Oblasts of Ukraine
| map                   = {{Ukraine Labelled Map}}
| category              = First-level subdivision of a [[unitary state]]
| territory             = {{flag|Ukraine}}
| start_date            = {{Start date and age|1932|02|27|df=y|p=y}}
| current_number        = 24 
| number_date           = 1991
| population_range      = 897,000 ([[Chernivtsi Oblast|Chernivtsi]]) to 4,157,000 ([[Donetsk Oblast|Donetsk]])
| area_range            = {{Convert|3126|sqmi|km2|order=flip|abbr=on}} ([[Chernivtsi Oblast|Chernivtsi]]) to {{Convert|12860|sqmi|km2|order=flip|abbr=on}} ([[Odesa Oblast|Odesa]])
| government            = Oblast State Administration,<br/>Oblast Council
| subdivision           = 136 [[Raions of Ukraine|raions]] ([[district]]s){{#tag:ref|A total of 136 raions exist within the first-level subdivisions of Ukraine, including the 24 oblasts and the [[Crimea|Autonomous Republic of Crimea]].|group="nb"}}
}}

An '''oblast''' ({{langx|uk|область|oblast}}, {{IPA|uk|ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ|pron|uk-область.ogg}}; {{plural form|{{langx|uk|області|oblasti|label=none}}}}), sometimes translated as '''region''' or '''province''', is the main type of first-level [[administrative divisions of Ukraine|administrative division]] of [[Ukraine]]. The country's territory is divided into 24 oblasts, as well as one [[Autonomous republic of Ukraine|autonomous republic]] and two [[City with special status|cities with special status]].

As Ukraine is a [[unitary state]], oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the [[Constitution of Ukraine|Ukrainian Constitution]] and devolved by law. Articles 140–146 of [[s:Constitution of Ukraine#Chapter IX: Territorial Structure of Ukraine|Chapter XI]] of the constitution deal directly with local authorities and their competence.

Oblasts are divided into [[Raions of Ukraine|raions]], with each oblast having between three and eight raions following the [[Raions of Ukraine#July 2020 reform|July 2020 reform]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://decentralization.gov.ua/news/12639 |website=decentralization.gov.ua |access-date=24 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610105004/https://decentralization.gov.ua/news/12639 |archive-date=10 June 2022 |language=Ukrainian |url-status=live}}</ref>

==General characteristics==
{{Ukraine subdivisions sidebar}}

In Ukraine, the term ''[[oblast]]'' denotes a primary [[administrative division]]. Under the [[Russian Empire]] and into the 1920s, Ukraine was divided between several [[Guberniya|governorates]]. The term ''oblast'' was introduced in 1932 by [[Soviet regime|Soviet authorities]] when the Ukrainian SSR was divided into seven oblasts, replacing the previous subdivision system based on [[Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|okruha]]s and encompassing 406 raions (districts).<ref name=stat>{{cite web|title=Ukraine Regions |url=http://www.statoids.com/uua.html |work=Statoids |access-date=25 December 2011}}</ref> The first oblasts were [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], [[Kyiv Oblast]], [[Odesa Oblast]], [[Kharkiv Oblast]], and [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]]. Soon after that, in the summer of 1932, [[Donetsk Oblast]] was formed out of eastern parts of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts; in the fall of 1932 [[Chernihiv Oblast]] was formed on the border of Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts.

Between 1935 and 1938, there were several newly created and self-governed special [[Okrugs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|border okrugs]] (okruhas) located along the western border of the [[Soviet Union]] in Ukraine and Belarus. Upon liquidation of the okruhas in 1937–1938, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, and Kharkiv oblasts were each split into four additional oblasts ([[Zhytomyr Oblast]], [[Khmelnytskyi Oblast|Kamianets-Podilsky Oblast]] (later Khmelnytskyi), [[Mykolaiv Oblast]], [[Poltava Oblast]]). Just before [[World War II]], the [[Donetsk Oblast]] was split into Stalino Oblast and [[Luhansk Oblast|Voroshylovhrad Oblast]] and the [[Kirovohrad Oblast]] was created out of portions of Kyiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts.

During World War II, Ukraine added eight more oblasts of the [[West Ukraine]] and [[Bessarabia]]. Upon the occupation of Ukraine by [[Nazi Germany]] the territory was split between [[General Government]], [[Kingdom of Romania]] and [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] and carried out a completely different administrative division, see [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]]. With the re-establishing of Soviet power in the state after the war, the administrative division by oblast resumed, adding one more oblast—[[Zakarpattia Oblast|Zakarpattia]]. In 1954, the [[Crimean Oblast]] was [[1954 transfer of Crimea|transferred]] from the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] to the Ukrainian SSR; parts of the surrounding oblasts were incorporated into the [[Cherkasy Oblast]], while [[Izmail Oblast]] was absorbed by [[Odesa Oblast]]. In 1959, [[Drohobych Oblast]] was merged with [[Lviv Oblast]].

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their respective [[administrative center]]s, which are also the largest and most developed cities in the region. Oblast populations range from 904,000 in [[Chernivtsi Oblast]] to 4.4 million in the eastern [[Donetsk Oblast]].

===Original in 1932===
* Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, centered in Dnipropetrovsk (subdivided into raions)
* Kharkiv Oblast, centered in Kharkiv (subdivided into raions)
* Kyiv Oblast, centered in Kyiv (subdivided into raions)
* Odesa Oblast, centered in Odesa (subdivided into raions)
* Vinnytsia Oblast, centered in Vinnytsia (subdivided into raions)
* raions of republican subordination (directly to Kharkiv)

;Later there were added:
* Donetsk Oblast, centered in Stalino (initially &ndash; Artemivsk) (created on 17 July 1932 out of raions of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts and raions of republican subordination)
* Chernihiv Oblast, centered in Chernihiv (created on 15 October 1932 out of raions of Kharkiv and Kyiv oblasts)

===Further division in 1937–1938===
* Kamianets-Podilsk Oblast, centered in Kamianets-Podilsk (out of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast)
* Mykolaiv Oblast, centered in Mykolaiv (out of raions of Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts)
* Poltava Oblast, centered in Poltava (out of raions of Kharkiv and Kyiv oblasts)
* Zhytomyr Oblast, centered in Zhytomyr (out of raions of Vinnytsia and Kyiv oblasts)
* Donetsk Oblast was split into Stalino Oblast, centered in Stalino, and Voroshylovhrad Oblast, centered in Voroshylovhrad

===New creations and World War II territorial expansions in 1939–1940===
* Kirovohrad Oblast, centered in Kirovohrad (out of raions of Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava and Mykolaiv oblasts)
* Sumy Oblast, centered in Sumy (out of raions of Chernihiv, Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts)
* Zaporizhzhia Oblast, centered in Zaporizhzhia (out of raions of Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv oblasts)
* Drohobych Oblast, centered in Drohobych
* Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, centered in Ivano-Frankivsk
* Lviv Oblast, centered in Lviv
* Volyn Oblast, centered in Lutsk
* Rivne Oblast, centered in Rivne
* Tarnopol Oblast, centered in Tarnopol
* Chernivtsi Oblast, centered in Chernivtsi
* Izmail Oblast, centered in Izmail

===Postwar===
* Kherson Oblast, centered in Kherson
* Zakarpattia Oblast, centered in Uzhhorod
* Cherkasy Oblast, centered in Cherkasy
* Crimean Oblast, centered in Simferopol

===Maps===
<gallery class="center">
File:Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic 1929—1930.svg|The [[Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|okruhas of Ukraine]] in 1929–1930
File:Ukraine 1932-1937.png|After 1935; including recently created Donetsk and Chernihiv Oblasts and [[Okrugs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|border okruhas]]
File:Ukrainian SSR 1937—1938.svg|Border okruhas are liquidated and four additional oblasts created in 1937
File:Ukraine 1939-1940.png|Creation of additional oblasts just before [[World War II]]
File:Map of Ukrainian oblasts (1946–1954).png|Post-war divisions of Ukraine
</gallery>

==Constitutional provisions and authority==
The Ukrainian constitution establishes Ukraine as a unitary state. The specific text of the constitution that refers to the territorial structure is as follows.

{{blockquote|text=The territorial structure of Ukraine is based on the principles of unity and indivisibility of the state territory, the combination of centralisation and decentralisation in the exercise of state power, and the balanced socio-economic development of regions that takes into account their historical, economic, ecological, geographical and demographic characteristics, and ethnic and cultural traditions.|sign=[[Constitution of Ukraine]]|source=[[s:Constitution of Ukraine#Chapter IX: Territorial Structure of Ukraine|Chapter IX: Territorial Structure of Ukraine, Article 132]]}}

[[File:Вибори до ОМСУ 2015 Облради.PNG|thumb|[[2015 Ukrainian local elections|Election results of the 2015]] regional parliamentarian elections]]

Each of Ukraine's oblasts has its own legislative and executive authority, most of which is subordinate to the central government authorities in Kyiv. Each region is administered under laws passed by the Ukrainian government and the Constitution of Ukraine. Each region levies its own taxes and, in return, receives a portion of its budget from Kyiv, which gives them a portion of the taxes it levies.<ref>[[Constitution of Ukraine]], [[s:Constitution of Ukraine#Chapter XI: Local Self-Government|Chapter IX: Territorial Structure of Ukraine, Article 143]]</ref>

Executive power in each of the oblasts (as well as in other subdivisions of Ukraine) is exercised by local elected administrations.<ref name=law>{{cite web|title=The Constitution of Ukraine|url=http://pravnyk.info/law_const.html|work=pravnyk.info|access-date=25 December 2011|language=uk}}</ref> The heads of local administrations are in turn appointed and dismissed by the [[President of Ukraine]] upon nomination by the [[Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine|Cabinet of Ministers]].<ref name=law/><ref>[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/382028.html Poroshenko to sign Saakashvili's resignation if Cabinet submits motion], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (7 November 2016)</ref> Since Ukraine is a unitary state, there is little true political power and weight that these local administrations actually hold. Carrying out their authority, the heads of local administrations are accountable to the President and are subordinate to higher bodies of executive leadership.<ref name=law/> According to the Constitution the head of the heads of the local Oblast administrations should resign after a [[Ukrainian presidential elections|new President is elected]].<ref>{{in lang|uk}}{{cite web|url= https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2020/01/30/7238815/ |title=Чемпіон міста. Як Кличко втримав Київ |trans-title=Champion of the city. How Klitschko kept Kyiv |work=www.pravda.com.ua, [[Ukrainska Pravda]] |date=30 January 2020 |access-date=26 February 2022}}</ref>

Legislative power in the oblast governments is exercised by their respective oblast councils, which in turn supervise the activities of local administrations.<ref name=law/> They also have considerable budgets managed by an oblast council ({{langx|uk|обласна рада}}) made up of people's deputies (representatives) voted into office in regional elections every four years, the last of which [[2020 Ukrainian local elections|took place in 2020]].

==Nomenclature==
The name of each oblast is a [[relative clause|relative]] [[adjective]], formed by adding a feminine [[suffix]] to the name of respective center city. For example, [[Poltava]] is the administrative center of [[Poltava Oblast]]. Most of them are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", such as Poltava Oblast, which is also called ''Poltavshchyna'' ({{langx|uk|Полтавщина}}).

Exceptions to this rule include two oblasts, Volyn and Zakarpattia, which retain the names of their respective historical regions, ''Volyn'' ([[Volhynia]]) and ''Zakarpattia'' ([[Carpathian Ruthenia|Transcarpathia]]), whose respective capitals are [[Lutsk]] and [[Uzhhorod]].<ref name=CIA_W_F>{{cite web|title=Ukraine|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ukraine/|work=[[The World Factbook]]|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|access-date=25 December 2011}}</ref>

The capital cities of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Kirovohrad Oblast were renamed to [[Dnipro]] and [[Kropyvnytskyi]] in 2016 as part of a [[Decommunization in Ukraine|process of replacing Soviet toponyms]]. As the names of the oblasts are mentioned in the Ukrainian constitution, changing them requires a complicated and lengthy process, thus as of 2024, the two oblasts still formally retain their Soviet-era names.<ref name=CIA_W_F/>

==List==
According to the Ukrainian constitution, Ukraine is divided into 24 oblasts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Конституція України |url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/254%D0%BA/96-%D0%B2%D1%80 |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України |language=uk}}</ref> However, the majority of four oblasts are under Russian occupation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-09-30 |title=Putin signs documents to illegally annex four Ukrainian regions, in drastic escalation of Russia's war |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-putin-signs-documents-to-unlawfully-claim-4-ukrainian-regions-in/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}}</ref> These oblasts are written in the ''italic'' typeface.
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|- style="background:#ddd;"
! Region
! Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
! Population (2022)
! Pop. density
! Administrative center
! Raions
! Hromadas
!License plate prefix
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Cherkasy Oblast}}
|20,891
|1,198,000
|61.80
|[[Cherkasy]]
|4
|66
|CA, IA
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Chernihiv Oblast}}
|31,851.3
|994,000
|34.67
|[[Chernihiv]]
|5
|57
|CB, IB
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Chernivtsi Oblast}}
|8,093.6
|897,000
|111.67
|[[Chernivtsi]]
|3
|52
|CE, IE
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Dnipropetrovsk Oblast}}
|31,900.5
|3,214,000
|104.83
|[[Dnipro]]
|7
|86
|AE, KE
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |''{{flag|Donetsk Oblast}}''
|''26,505.7''
|''4,157,000''
|''167.81''
|''[[Donetsk]] ([[Kramatorsk]])''
|''8''
|''66''
|''AH, KH''
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast}}
|13,894.0
|1,382,000
|99.38
|[[Ivano-Frankivsk]]
|6
|62
|AT, KT
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Kharkiv Oblast}}
|31,401.6
|2,683,000
|87.74
|[[Kharkiv]]
|7
|56
|AX, KX
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |''{{flag|Kherson Oblast}}''
|''28,449''
|''1,026,000''
|''38.35''
|''[[Kherson]]''
|''5''
|''49''
|''BT, HT''
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Khmelnytskyi Oblast}}
|20,636.2
|1,274,000
|64.52
|[[Khmelnytskyi]]
|3
|60
|BX, HX
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Kirovohrad Oblast}}
|24,577.5
|958,000
|41.29
|[[Kropyvnytskyi]]
|4
|49
|BA, HA
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Kyiv Oblast}}
|28,118.9
|1,775,000
|61.15
|[[Kyiv]]
|7
|69
|AI, KI
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |''{{flag|Luhansk Oblast}}''
|''26,672.5''
|''2,145,000''
|''86.25''
|''[[Luhansk]] ([[Sievierodonetsk]])''
|''8''
|''37''
|''BB, HB''
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Lviv Oblast}}
|21,823.7
|2,515,000
|116.65
|[[Lviv]]
|7
|73
|BC, HC
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Mykolaiv Oblast}}
|24,587.4
|1,126,000
|48.25
|[[Mykolaiv]]
|4
|52
|BE, HE
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Odesa Oblast|Odesa Oblast}}
|33,295.9
|2,395,000
|71.71
|[[Odesa]]
|7
|91
|BH, HH
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Poltava Oblast}}
|28,735.8
|1,392,000
|51.98
|[[Poltava]]
|4
|60
|BI, HI
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Rivne Oblast}}
|20,038.5
|1,146,000
|57.52
|[[Rivne]]
|4
|64
|BK, HK
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Sumy Oblast}}
|23,823.9
|1,094,000
|48.97
|[[Sumy]]
|5
|51
|BM, HM
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Ternopil Oblast}}
|13,817.1
|1,035,000
|78.65
|[[Ternopil]]
|3
|55
|BO, HO
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Vinnytsia Oblast}}
|26,501.6
|1,566,000
|62.12
|[[Vinnytsia]]
|6
|63
|AB, KB
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Volyn Oblast}} 
|20,135.3
|1,046,000
|51.56
|[[Lutsk]]
|4
|54
|AC, KC
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Zakarpattia Oblast}} 
|12,771.5
|1,247,000
|97.59
|[[Uzhhorod]]
|6
|64
|AO, KO
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |''{{flag|Zaporizhzhia Oblast}}''
|''27,168.5''
|''1,699,000''
|''66.45''
|''[[Zaporizhzhia]]''
|''5''
|''67''
|''AP, KP''
|-
| style="background:#FFEC77; color:black" |{{flag|Zhytomyr Oblast}}
|29,819.2
|1,213,000
|43.03
|[[Zhytomyr]]
|4
|65
|AM, KM
|}

[[File:Map of Ukrainian oblasts (1946–1954).png|thumb|Map of the administrative divisions of the Ukrainian SSR from 1946–1954 shows the [[Izmail Oblast]] and [[Drohobych Oblast]] ]]
[[File:Map of Ukraine with Cities.png|thumb|Map of Ukraine with oblasts and largest cities]]

===Former===
* [[Izmail Oblast]] (initially as Akkerman Oblast) existed in 1940–41 and 1944–54 (under Romanian occupation, later was added to Odesa Oblast)
* [[Drohobych Oblast]] existed from 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 (under German occupation, it was merged into Lviv Oblast)
* [[Crimean Oblast]] (1954–1991) was transformed into [[Crimean ASSR]]

===Renamed===
* Stalino Oblast was the name of Donetsk Oblast 1938–41 and 1943–61 (created out of the united Donetsk Oblast 1932–38, German occupation 1941–43)
* Akkerman Oblast was the name of Izmail Oblast 1940
* Stanislav Oblast was the name of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1939–41 and 1944–62 (German occupation 1941–44)
* Kamianetsk-Podilska Oblast was the name of Khmelnytskyi Oblast 1937–41 and 1944–54 (German occupation 1941–44, later transfer of administrative center to [[Khmelnytskyi]])
* Voroshylovhrad Oblast was the name of Luhansk Oblast 1938–42, 1943–58 and 1970–90 (German occupation 1942–43)
* Tarnopil Oblast was the name of Ternopil Oblast 1939–41 (renamed soon after World War II)
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Kirovohrad Oblast are pending renaming following the renaming of their capital cities to Dnipro and Kropyvnytskyi.

==Government==
===Governors and legislatures===
{{see also|Head of local state administration}}
{|class=wikitable
!rowspan=2|Name!!colspan=2|Executive!!colspan=4|Legislature
|-
!Governor!!Current Governor!!Oblast Council!!Building!!No. of seats!!Seating plan
|-
|{{flag|Cherkasy Oblast|name=Cherkasy}}||[[Governor of Cherkasy Oblast]]||[[Ihor Taburets]]||[[Cherkasy Oblast Council]]||[[File:Черкаська міськдержадміністрація.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Черкаській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Chernihiv Oblast|name=Chernihiv}}||[[Governor of Chernihiv Oblast]]||[[Vyacheslav Chaus]]||[[Chernihiv Oblast Council]] || ||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Чернігівській обласній раді 7-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Chernivtsi Oblast|name=Chernivtsi}}||[[Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast]]||[[Serhiy Osachuk]]||[[Chernivtsi Oblast Council]]||[[File:Будинок з левами.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Чернівецькій обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Dnipropetrovsk Oblast|name=Dnipropetrovsk}}||[[Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]]||[[Valentyn Reznichenko]]||[[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council]]||[[File:Будинок Дніпропетровської обласної ради.JPG|200px]]||120||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Дніпропетровській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-style="background-color:#dddddd;"
|{{flag|Donetsk Oblast|name=Donetsk}}||[[Governor of Donetsk Oblast]]||[[Pavlo Kyrylenko]]||[[Donetsk Oblast Council]]||[[File:Donezk 02.JPG|200px]]||163||
|-
|{{flag|Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast|name=Ivano-Frankivsk}}||[[Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast]]||[[Svitlana Onyschuk]]||[[Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council]]||[[File:6. Івано-Франківськ Адмінбудинок.jpg|200px]]||84||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Івано-Франківській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Kharkiv Oblast|name=Kharkiv}}||[[Governor of Kharkiv Oblast]]||[[Oleh Synyehubov]]||[[Kharkiv Oblast Council]]|| ||120||[[File:Kharkiv Oblast Council 2021 diagram.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Kherson Oblast|name=Kherson}}||[[Governor of Kherson Oblast]]||[[Hennadiy Lahuta]]{{#tag:ref|The position is disputed. [[Volodymyr Saldo]] was appointed Governor on 26 April 2022 by the Russian military following the [[Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast|occupation of Kherson Oblast]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Российские оккупационные силы назначили своих «руководителей» в Херсоне и области |url=https://ru.krymr.com/a/news-ukraina-rossiyskiye-okkupatsionnyye-sily-naznachili-svoikh-rukovoditeley-kherson-oblast/31821963.html |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=Крым.Реалии |date=26 April 2022 |language=ru}}</ref>|group="nb"}}||[[Kherson Oblast Council]]|| [[File:Ukraine Oblast Cherson Verwaltung.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Херсонській обласній раді 7-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Khmelnytskyi Oblast|name=Khmelnytskyi}}||[[Governor of Khmelnytskyi Oblast]]||[[Serhiy Hamaliy]]||[[Khmelnytskyi Oblast Council]]|| ||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів у Хмельницькій обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Kyiv Oblast|name=Kyiv}}||[[Governor of Kyiv Oblast]]||[[Oleksiy Kuleba]]||[[Kyiv Oblast Council]]||[[File:ЦИК и Киевская ОГА.JPG|200px]]||84||[[File:Kyiv Oblast Council 2021 diagram.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Kirovohrad Oblast|name=Kirovohrad}}||[[Governor of Kirovohrad Oblast]]||[[Oleh Synyehubov]]||[[Kirovohrad Oblast Council]]||[[File:Центральна площа Кропивницького.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Кіровоградській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
|-style="background-color:#dddddd;"
|{{flag|Luhansk Oblast|name=Luhansk}}||[[Governor of Luhansk Oblast]]||[[Artem Lysohor]]||[[Luhansk Oblast Council]]||[[File:Дом советов, Луганск.jpg|200px]]||124||
|-
|{{flag|Lviv Oblast|name=Lviv}}||[[Governor of Lviv Oblast]]||[[Maksym Kozytskyy]]||[[Lviv Oblast Council]]||[[File:Наместничество Львов.jpg|200px]]||84||[[File:Ukraine Lviv Oblast Rada 2020.svg|200px]]
|-
|{{flag|Mykolaiv Oblast|name=Mykolaiv}}||[[Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast]]||[[Vitaliy Kim]]||[[Mykolaiv Oblast Council]]|| ||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Миколаївській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Odesa Oblast|name=Odesa}}||[[Governor of Odesa Oblast]]||[[Maksym Marchenko]]||[[Odesa Oblast Council]]||[[File:Building of Regional Administration and Regional Council of Odessa Oblast.jpg|200px]] ||84||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Одеській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Poltava Oblast|name=Poltava}}||[[Governor of Poltava Oblast]]||[[Dmytro Lunin]]||[[Poltava Oblast Council]]||[[File:Poltava Regional State Administration building.jpg|200px]]||84||[[File:ПОДА 8 скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Rivne Oblast|name=Rivne}}||[[Governor of Rivne Oblast]]||[[Vitaliy Koval]]||[[Rivne Oblast Council]]||[[File:Rivne Regional State Administration building.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Рівненській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Sumy Oblast|name=Sumy}}||[[Governor of Sumy Oblast]]||[[Dmytro Zhyvytskyi]]||[[Sumy Oblast Council]]||[[File:Сумська облдержадміністрація (2).jpg|200px]]||84||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Сумській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Ternopil Oblast|name=Ternopil}}||[[Governor of Ternopil Oblast]]||[[Volodymyr Trush]]||[[Ternopil Oblast Council]]||[[File:Будівля Тернопільської ОДА та обласної ради - 08062225.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів у Тернопільській обласній раді 7-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Vinnytsia Oblast|name=Vinnytsia}}||[[Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast]]||[[Serhiy Borzov]]||[[Vinnytsia Oblast Council]]||[[File:Винница. Областная Рада..JPG|200px]] ||84||[[File:Розподіл мандатів у Вінницькій обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Volyn Oblast|name=Volyn}}||[[Governor of Volyn Oblast]]||[[Yuriy Pohuliaiko]]||[[Volyn Oblast Council]]||[[File:Volyn ODA.JPG|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів у Волинській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Zakarpattia Oblast|name=Zakarpattia}}||[[Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast]]||[[Viktor Mykyta]]||[[Zakarpattia Oblast Council]]||[[File:Ungvar Government.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Закарпатській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Zaporizhzhia Oblast|name=Zaporizhzhia}}||[[Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast]]||[[Oleksandr Starukh]]||[[Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council]]||[[File:Zaporizhzhia oblast administration front view.jpg|200px]]||84||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Запорізькій обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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|{{flag|Zhytomyr Oblast|name=Zhytomyr}}||[[Governor of Zhytomyr Oblast]]||[[Vitaliy Bunechko]]||[[Zhytomyr Oblast Council]]||[[File:Zhytomyr Regional State Administration building.jpg|200px]]||64||[[File:Розподіл мандатів в Житомирській обласній раді 7-го скликання.svg|200px]]
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==See also==
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* [[Geography of Ukraine]]
* [[ISO 3166-2:UA]]
* [[List of etymologies of administrative divisions#Ukraine|List of etymologies of administrative divisions: "Ukraine"]]
* [[List of places named after people#Ukraine|List of places named after people (Ukraine)]]
* [[Ukrainian historical regions]]
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==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{cite web|title=Regions of Ukraine and their composition|url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/a002|work=[[Verkhovna Rada|Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine]]|access-date=25 December 2011|language=uk}}
* {{cite web|title=Territorial Division of Ukraine|url=http://pidruchniki.ws/12210605/pravo/teritorialniy_ustriy_ukrayini|access-date=25 December 2011|language=uk}}
* {{cite web |title=Territorial real estate of Ukraine (Kyiv) |url=https://vn.com.ua/ua/catalog/kievskaya-oblast/kiev |access-date=24 February 2022 |language=uk}}
* [http://www.knowbysight.info/1_UKRA/10049.asp Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union]

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